To The Best of Our Knowledge

K

• Joanna Kadi, Sketches from a Cultural Worker South End Press
• Michio Kaku, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century Anchor Books
• Rodger Kamenetz, Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters (Harper San Francisco)
• Wendy Kaminer, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils Of Piety (Pantheon)
• Joe Kane, Savages Knopf
• Stefan Kanfer, Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx (Knopf)
• Stefan Kanfer, Serious Business: The Art and Commerce of Animation in America Scribner
• Robert Kanigel, The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency Viking
• Joseph Kanon, The Prodigal Spy (Broadway)
• Edward Kanze, Kangaroo Dreaming: An Australian Wildlife Odyssey (Sierra Club Books)
• Justin Kaplan & Anne Bernays, The Language of Names Simon & Schuster
• Laura Kaplan, The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service (Pantheon)
• Robert Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (Random House)
• Robert Kaplan, The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero (Oxford)
• Robert Karon, The Forgiving Self: the road from resentment to connection (Doubleday)
• Mary Karr, Cherry: A Memoir (Viking)
• Mary Karr, The Liars' Club Penguin
• Joy S. Kasson, Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History (Hill and Wang)
• Jane Katch, Under Deadman's Skin: Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play (Beacon)
• Jon Katz, Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho (Villard)
• Jon Katz, Virtuous Reality Random House
• Linda S. Kauffman, Bad Girls and Sick Boys: fantasies in contemporary art and culture (California)
• Jonathan Kaufman, A Hole in the Heart of the World Viking
• Kenn Kaufman, Birds of North America (Houghton Mifflin)
• Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand (Houghton Mifflin)
• Lucy Kaylin, For the Love of God: The Faith and Future of the American Nun (Morrow)
• John Keay, Empire's End: A History of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong Scribner
• John Keay, The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named (Harper Collins)
• Sam Keen, Learning to Fly: Trapeze - Reflections on Fear, Trust, and the Joy of Letting Go Broadway Books
• George Kelling with Catherine Coles, Fixing Broken Windows: Resorting Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities Vintage
• Joe Kelly, Dads and Daughters: How to Inspire, Understand and Support Your Daughter When She's Growing Up So Fast (Broadway Books)
• Daniel Kemmis, The Good City and the Good Life Houghton Mifflin
• Randall Kenan, Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Knopf)
• A.L. Kennedy, On Bullfighting (Anchor)
• Randall Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (Pantheon)
• Randall Kennedy, Race, Crime and the Law Pantheon
• William Kennedy, The Flaming Corsage (Penguin)
• Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization (Oxford University)
• Jane Kenyon, Otherwise (Greywolf Press)
• Jesse Lee Kercheval, Space: A Memoir (Algonquin)
• Bill Kerig, The Snowboarder's Total Guide to Life and Utah Underground (MSP)
• Frank Kermode, Shakespeare's Language (FSG)
• Alex Kerr, Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan (Hill and Wang)
• Bob Kerrey, When I Was a Young Man: a memoir (Harcourt)
• Daniel J. Kevles, The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character (Norton)
• Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern Consciousness Columbia University Press
• Tracy Kidder, Home Town (Random House)
• Chris Kilham, Psyche Delicacies: coffee, chocolate, chiles, kava, and cannabis, and why they're good for you (Rodale)
• Elizabeth Kim, Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean Orphan (Doubleday)
• Jamaica Kincaid, Mr. Potter: a novel (FSG)
• Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Gary Kinder, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible (HarperCollins)
• Karen Kingston, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Broadway Books)
• Mark Kingwell, In Pursuit of Happiness: Better Living from Plato to Prozac (Crown)
• Stephen Kinzer, Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds (FSG)
• Ruth Kirk, Snow University of Washington Press
• Jonathan Kirsch, The Harlot by the Side of the Road: forbidden tales of the bible Ballantine Books
• Also in Searching for Faith, #99-04-04-C
• Matthew Klam, Sam the Cat and Other Stories (Knopf)
• Michael T. Klare, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict (Metropolitan Books)
• Carl Klaus, My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season Houghton Mifflin
• Carl Klaus, Weathering Winter: A Gardener's Daybook University of Iowa Press
• Richard Klein, Eat Fat Pantheon
• Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (Picador)
• Ivan Klima, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light Grove Press
• Lisa Kleypas, Suddenly You (Avon)
• Jim Knipfel, Slackjaw (J.P. Tarcher)
• Roger Knutson, Furtive Fauna: A Field Guide to Creatures Who Live on You Ten Speed Press
• Deborah Copaken Kogan, Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War (Villard)
• Linda Kohanov, The Tao of Equus: A Woman's Journey of Healing and Transformation through the Way of the Horse (New World Library)
• Alan Kolata, Valley of the Spirits: A Journey to the Lost Realm of the Aymara Wiley
• Gina Kolata Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead (Morrow)
• Gina Kolata, Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (FSG)
• Gabriel Kolko, Vietnam: Anatomy of a Peace Routledge
• David Murphy, Sergei Kondrashev and George Bailey, Battle Ground Berlin: CIA vs KGB in the Cold War Yale
• Harold Koplewicz, It's Nobody's Fault: New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents Times Books
• Michael Korda, Man to Man: Surviving Prostate Cancer (Random House)
• Phyllis Kornfeld, Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America Princeton
• Sarah Kortum, The Hatless Man: An Anthology of Odd and Forgotten Manners Viking
• Joel Kotkin, The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape (Random House)
• Steven Kotler, The Angle Quickest for Flight (Four Walls Eight Windows)
• Sudha Koul, The Tiger Ladies: a memoir of Kashmir (Beacon)
• Jonathan Kozol, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope (Crown)
• Chris Kraft, Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Dutton)
• Kevin Krajick, Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic (Times Books)
• Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Villard
• Etta Kralovec and John Buell, The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning (Beacon)
• Peter Kramer, Listening to Prozac Viking
• Peter D. Kramer, Should You Leave? A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy -- and the Nature of Advice (Scribner)
• Iris Krasnow, Surrendering to Motherhood: Losing Your Mind, Finding Your Soul Hyperion
• Bernie Krause, Into A Wild Sanctuary: A Life in Music and Natural Sound (Heyday Books)
• Lawrence M. Krauss, Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond (Little Brown)
• Donald B. Kraybill, The Riddle of Amish Culture (Johns Hopkins)
• Shepard Krech III, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (Norton)
• Goran Kropp, Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey (Random House)
• Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Valerie L. Kuletz, The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West (Routledge)
• Mark Kurlansky, Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world Walker
• Gersh Kuntzman, Hair! Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness (AtRandom.Com)
• Mark Kurlansky, Salt: a World History (Walker)
• Howard Kurtz, The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street's Game of Money, Media, and Manipulation (Free Press)
• Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Intelligent Machines & The Age of Spiritual Machines Viking
• Stanley Kutler, Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes (Touchstone)
• Stephen Kuusisto, The Planet of the Blind: A Memoir Dial Press

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• Robert Lacey, The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium (Little, Brown)
• Peter Ladefoged, Vowels and Consonants
• William R. LaFleur, Liquid Life: abortion and Buddhism in Japan (Princeton)
• Janja Lalich with Madeleine Landau Tobias, Captive Hearts, Captive Minds (Hunter)
• Jake Lamar, Close to the Bone (Crown)
• Brian Lamb, Booknotes Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America (Times)
• Joan Lambert, Circles of Stone Pocket Books
• Ken Lamberton, Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist's Observations from Prison (Mercury House)
• Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Pantheon)
• Annie Lamott, Crooked Little Heart Pantheon
• George Lang, Nobody Knows the Truffles I've Seen (Knopf)
• William Langewiesche, Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight Pantheon
• William Langewiesche, Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert Pantheon
• Frans Lanting, Jungles (Taschen)
• John Lantos, Do We Still Need Doctors? Routledge
• Joseph Lanza, Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong (Picador)
• Joseph Lanza, Gravity: Tilted Perspectives on Rocketships, Rollercoasters, Earthquakes and Angel Food Picador USA
• Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro, Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster (Warner Books)
• Marc Lappe, Against the Grain: Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food (Common Courage Press)
• Frances Moore Lappe, Diet for a Small Planet (Ballantine Books)
• Loretta LaRoche, Relax -- you may only have a few minutes left: Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work (Villard)
• Edward Larson, Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands
• Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Vintage)
• David Laskin, Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather Doubleday
• Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America (Eagle Brook)
• Pierre Laszlo, translated by Mary Beth Mader, Grain of Life (Columbia)
• Rebecca Latimer, You're Not Old Until You're Ninety...Best To Be Prepared, However (Blue Dolphin)
• Mary Wells Lawrence, A Big Life (in advertising) (Knopf)
• Eric Lax and A.M. Sperber, Bogart Morrow
• Penelope Leach, Your Baby and Child Knopf
• Judith Leavitt, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health (Beacon)
• Jack Lechner, Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (Crown)
• Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf: a biography Knopf
• David Leeming and Jake Page, editors, Myths, Legends and Folktales of America Oxford
• Bernard Lefkowitz, Our Guys (Vintage)
• Ursula Le Guin, The Telling (Harcourt)
• David Lehman and James Tate, editors, The Best American Poetry, 1997 (Scribner)
• David Lehman and Harold Bloom, editors, The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1998 (Scribner)
• Annie Leibovitz, Women (Random House)
• Carolyn Lei-lanilau, Ono Ono Girl's Hula (University of Wisconsin)
• Brad Leithauser, The Friends of Freeland Knopf
• Jerry Lembcke, The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam (New York University)
• Michael Lemonick, Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe (Simon & Schuster)
• Lena Lencek & Gideon Bosker, The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth (Penguin)
• John Leonard, Smoke and Mirrors: Violence, Television and Other American Cultures The New Press
• Jill Lepore, A is for American: Letter and Other Characters in the Newly United States (Knopf)
• Gerda Lerner, Why History Matters Oxford
• Harriet Lerner, PhD., Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life Harper Collins
• Steve Lerner, Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today's Environmental Problems M.I.T. Press
• Craig Lesley, The Sky Fisherman (Houghton Mifflin)
• Doris Lessing, Ben, In the World (Harper Collins)
• Doris Lessing, Love Again (Harper Perennial)
• Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus (Dutton)
• Jonathan Lethem, Girl in Landscape (Doubleday)
• Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday)
• Benedict Le Vay, Nigel Dempster, Eccentric Britain: The Bradt Guide to Britain's Follies & Foibles (Bradt Publications)
• Primo Levi, The Periodic Table (Schocken Books)
• James Levine, Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and the Family Addison Wesley
• Robert Levine, A Geography of Time, Basic Books
  Also heard in the program Getting a Life
• David Levy, Starry Night: Astronomers and Poets Read the Sky (Prometheus)
• Alan Lew, One God Clapping: The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi (Kodansha)
• John S. Lewis, Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets and Planets Addison Wesley
• Michael Lewis, The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (Norton)
• Michael Lewis, Trail Fever: spin doctors, rented strangers, thumb wrestlers, toe sucker, girzzly bears, and other creatures on the road to the White House Knopf
• Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon, A General Theory of Love (Random House)
• The Library of America, Reporting Vietnam, Part One: American Journalism 1959-1969 (The Library of America)
• The Library of America, Reporting Vietnam, Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975 (The Library of America)
• Paul Lichterman, The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment (Cambridge University Press)
• Anatol Lieven, Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power (Yale Univ.)
• Hilary Lifton and Kate Montgomery, Dear Exile: The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) By an Ocean (Vintage)
• Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect: an exploration (Perseus Books)
• Blanche Linden, Silent City on a Hill: Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery (Ohio State University Press)
• Edward T. Linenthal, The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory (Oxford)
• Simi Linton, Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity NYU Press
• Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks, It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States (Norton)
• David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper (Random House)
• Jonathan Littman, The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulson Little, Brown
• Carol Lloyd, Creating a Life Worth Living: A Practical Course in Career Design for Artists, Innovators, and Others Aspiring to a Creative Life (HarperPerennial)
• David Lodge: Thinks (Viking)
• Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer's Invitation to Gardening Chelsea Green
• Stanley Lomabardo - translator, Homer's Iliad Hackett
• Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge University Press)
• Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men (Scribner)
• Barry Lopez, About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory (Knopf) Also in Program # 98-10-11-C "Come Fly With Me",
• Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West (Chicago)
• Betty Bao Lord, The Middle Heart Knopf
• Sara Lorimer, Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas (Chronicle Books)
• Sharon Lovejoy, Sunflower Houses: Sharing Secrets from Gardens Past (Workman)
• Sharon Lovejoy, Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots (Workman)
• Margaret Lowman, Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology (Yale)
• Judith Lowry, Gardening with a Wild Heart (University of California Press)
• Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, I Miss It So (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Medlar Lucan and Durian Gray, The Decadent Cookbook Dedalus
• Lynne Luciano, Looking Good: Male Body Image in Contemporary America (Hill & Wang)
• Melissa Ludtke, On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America (California)
  Also heard in "Becoming Women"
• Derek Lundy, Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters (Algonquin)
• Hugh Lupton, Freaky Tales from Far and Wide (Barefoot)
• Paul Lussier, Last Refuge of Scoundrels: a Revolutionary Novel (Warner)
• Jackie Lyden, Daughter of the Queen of Sheba Houghton Mifflin
• Tom Lutz, Crying: The Natural & Cultural History of Tears (Norton)
• Susan Gordon Lydon, The Knitting Sutra: craft as spiritual practice Harper Collins
• Thomas Lynch, Bodies in Motion and At Rest (Norton)
• Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: life studies from the dismal trade Norton